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  1. OurJud

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    I’ve had hiccups now for 9 hours solid. When should I start getting concerned?
     
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    Rzero Reluctant voice of his generation Contributor

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    Been there. Though the farther I am down the wiki hole, the less likely I am to remember how I got there. A while back I started on the page for the movie Avatar and ended up learning all about the first school for the deaf in South America, where the kids, without help from the adults, made up a their own sign language with tense and verb agreement.
     
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    No one ever wants to listen to this, because everyone has clever little tricks that make no sense whatsoever, but the way to get your diaphragm to stop spasming is to breathe in and out very slowly, meditation style (3-4 sec in, 3-4 sec out.) If you hiccup on the way in, keep breathing in. If you hiccup on the way out, keep breathing out. It usually takes me about 30 seconds, but it sounds like you've got it bad, so maintain a rhythm for a few minutes, longer if you have to. If they come back, start again immediately. I promise it works.

    As to how long before you seek help, the record is something like years long, so you're totally safe at this point.
     
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    Yeah, this is my derailed train of thought, but at least it sometimes turns educational. We eat feta a lot and I mean a lot over here (I always have feta in the fridge, it's a necessity) and we have a great variation of it. We often eat food like beans, lentils, spinach, leek, you know, oily cuisine that goes well with feta and bread, because without it I doubt you'd feel full except if you ate a big portion of food that would actually hurt your tummy later on. Food like that without feta feels like spaghetti napolitaine without graded cheese. I don't like pizza with feta or olives. It's just not pizza enough.

    Very healthy, very simple, very tasty! I often snack like this but without the jam. My grandfather used to eat feta with watermelon.

    Indeed. I've been watching some footages from 20's to 50's Egypt and back then ideologically they were more progressive. Some dictators radically changed their religion's meanings (turned it political) and used it to manipulate the masses in the sixties and voila. History repeating itself.
     
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    I believe this is the correct way to procrastinate on the internet. I've been guilty of getting derailed by meaningless bullshit, especially on yt from time to time. Cat funny vids are my weakness. Learning about the first school for the deaf in America is meaningful information.
     
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    You're in Greece, right? Streets are probably paved in Feta over there.

    We don't have the SKU in the restaurant anymore. It was on there once upon a time, but I'll be damned if I can remember what we used it in. Might have been a Greek salad thingie we sold for lunch... back before I murdered lunch with extreme prejudice. I put that one my resume: "Successfully murdered lunch and saved $50k in payroll while only sacrificing 6% in sales... sales then increased 12% with added productivity and time to get shit done. Then the quarantine happened and we lost $1 million (and counting). Not my fault."
     
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    :superlaugh::superlaugh::superlaugh:... True.

    Indeed... I'm a bit clueless upon managing a restaurant but what does SKU have to do with anything? I just googled its meaning...

    Oh, shit. Of course it's not your fault. Cafeterias, bars, restaurants, taverns have had the worst of blows than any other markets. I hope you'll get out of this as much unscathed as possible.
     
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    I know of this solution and it’s been the only reliable method I know of. I did try this a few times throughout the day, but when you’ve got a work colleague blabbering in your ear all day it’s difficult to concentrate. As it happens I fell asleep 15 minutes after getting home from work and this seems to have alleviated the problem.
     
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    Shorthand for any item we carry. It goes on an inventory sheet, an order guide, various prep sheets etc. And because there are multiple options for "chicken," for example, we include the vendors SKU # so we know which is the correct product we order... mainly in case Uncle Homer gets captured by aliens or throws himself in front of a crosstown bus.
     
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    @minstrel vs. Our Neighbors to the North:

     
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    :superlaugh:
     
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    Poor lil sausage. He worked so hard.
     
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    Looks like it was trying to stuff its cheeks! :superlaugh:
     
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    Maybe it tasted like maple syrple?
     
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    Drink recommedenstions with gin? Out of whisky.
     
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    Gin and Juice. It comes with a side of old school gangsta rap cred. Plus, there are like fifty ways to make it. If you google it, the recipes range from gin and orange juice to some seriously elaborate concoctions with no orange whatsoever.
     
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    Bloody Mary made with gin instead of vodka (I think it's called a Red Snapper then, not sure) is pretty good.
     
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    Uum... tonic water?

    Oh, and do the right thing by sticking to just one glass...

    ... it saves on the washing up.
     
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    I do wonder if I swatted the fly, or it has learned to play dead. o_O
     
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    Does it look like a mini pizza? If yes then you swatted it.
     
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    Anybody else remember the movie The Omega Man?

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    Wouldn't mind getting my hands on a piece of that 115 Million euro lottery jackpot tonight. I'd by me some haribo and a house for my dad.
     
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    Charlton Heston. Yes I do, but why are you asking? I don’t get the relevance of the image.
     
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    Omega Man was the second movie based on I am Legend by Richard Matheson. Decent Book, but definitely not his best work. I've never seen it, but the other two are good. The other two don't star Charlton Heston though, which is a plus.
     
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